Sunday 11 April 2010

Adam Neate

Pizza boxes form his canvases. And a mixture of paint and collage is usually the medium of choice for Adam’s figurative work.

Adam began as a graphic designer in an ad agency. But his heart wasn’t in it, and soon he was creating paintings using objects he found on the streets. This use of cheap ‘canvases’ allowed him an experimental freedom in his work. And what he found on the street he put back on the street. Often leaving work on street walls, or in shop and office doorways.

Elms picked him up in early 2007, and his first show sold out within hours of opening. Shortly after, in December of the same year, a painting titled ‘Suicide Bomber’ sold at Christies for £78,500.

In 2008 Adam famously decided to give 1000 pieces of work away in a single night. Screen prints, stamped with his signature and wrapped in cellophane were left, like most of his others, on London’s mean streets. Happily not all of them ended up on EBay.







Above 1 of 1000 left on the street.



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